Table of Contents

Editor's statement; Section editor's foreword; Preface; Historical introduction; Prerequisites; Notation; 1. Preliminaries on fields and polynomials; 2. Algebraic extensions; 3. Galois theory; 4. Transcendental Extensions; References and selected bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This 1984 book makes the general theory of field extensions accessible to any reader with a modest background in groups, rings and vector spaces.